Installing on
Solaris

The following steps have been tested to work with Riak version 1.3.1 on Solaris 10 i386. They demonstrate installation of a Riak node on Solaris as the root user.

Note: Before installing Riak on Solaris, be sure that you’ve installed sudo as Riak’s scripts require it for proper operation.

Open Files Limit

Before proceeding with installation, you should ensure that the system’s open files limit is at least 65536 by verifying the current value of nofiles(descriptors). Check the current value with the ulimit command:

ulimit -a

To temporarily increase this limit for the life of your session, use the following command:

ulimit -n 65536

To increase this value in a persistent manner that will be enforced after restarting the system, add the following to the /etc/system file: